The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-19
Taught by Partaking of the
Sacrament.
THE LITERAL REsURREC ZION.
Remarks by Elder Bywater, who Also
Speaks on the First Principles
of the Gospel

tul weather. among those present Rep
resentatiVes Reed and Hit were
noticed. The services were begun by
the singing of the hymn commencing:
The great and glorious gospel light.
Prayer by Elder Edward Snelgrove.
Singing'of the hymn.
o Lord of Hosts, we now invoke.
ELDER GEORGE G. BYwATER requested
the assistance of the faith and PRAYERS
of the Saints, that he might be enabled to
speak that which would be beneficial to
all present. The administration of the
Sacrament carried his mind back, he
said, to the ever-memorable and signif-
cant declaration of Jesus Christ, when
the practice was originated: 81 will
drink no more of the fruit of the vine,
until drink it anew with you
in my Fathers kingdom" This
declaration contained one of the
most divine promises on record,
because it established in the
minds of all believers doctrine, that of
the material resurrection of the body of
man. 1t penetrates down to the very
foundation upon which rests the hope
of the hereafter, We are living, Elder
Bywater remarked, in an age when the
principles of Christianity have become
innoculated with the commands of men.
This age is burdened with many tradi-
tional enCumberances attached to the
plane of salvation revealed through the
ministry of Jesus Christ and HIS CO
Iaborers, the apostles. The present is
the dispensation of the fulness of time
We need not seek for stronger evidence,
or more conclusive proof of this state
ment than to take into account the
different constructions put upon the
gospel by the numerous sects of the
world. 1t behooves every consistent
professor of the doctrire s OF the Bible
to be tenacious Of the doctrines therein
contained, and to preserve intact the
principles of the gospel. The doctrine
of the resurrection is cardinal priDci-
pie, and without it hope is vain; hopes
of immortality are banished tor eyer.
The words of the text are sublime.
There is little authority to be found in
the range of divine literature for the
opinion that there is no resurrection
that when the vital spark has fed, then
and forever, we return TO dust. And
yet we have scholarly men, Christian
divines, who doubt the literal resurrec-
ton of the body. Areview of the sub
ject enables us to learn that there are
many false and delusive spirits gone
out into the world; men who seek to
disestablish the spiritual body by a
crude naturalization. The Sacrament
is to remind us that God gave US His
only begotten Son, who died an igno-
hot
was for the human family. Elder By
water had often wondered what conso-
lation could be drawn from the belief
that when man shuffled of this mortal
coil; that the matter of body and spirit
becomes disintegrated; that the disem-
bodied spirit remains through the
countless ages Man, though he had
free agency, had not the right to change
the invulnerable, Interchangeable, princi-
pies revealed from heaven. There was
no prospect for the future of our race
that presents so many and so grand |
features, so attractive in their form and |
so rational in their claim, as are the |
the principles of the gospel of the Son |
of God; no, not in all the literature ard !
learning of the world. There is no
relief, no ultimate satisfaction to be
derived, from the unsupported testi-
mony of men of the world concerning
the future. Those contained in the
revelations in the Bible are incontrover-
tible, simple and truthful. The Latter
day Saints have learned that there is
no other name by which men can be
saved; that through His atonement
man will receive complete atonement.
If Jesus drank of the fruit OF the vine,
in the institution of the Sacrament,
with His disciples, while on earth, he
gave them an assurance that He would
drink of it again, anew. in His Fathers
kingdom. And if there was no resur-
rection, if the graves give not up their
dead, then how can spirits, dlsem-
bodied partake of the fruit of the vine,
and render q fulfiIment of the Savior's |
promise. The disciples will enjoy the
ful6lment of that promise. In the
Scriptures we have the assurance that |
Jesus Christ Is resurrected from the |
dead, He made His appearance to
those He associated with. who an
nounced that fact TO Joseph Smith ii |
this dispensation. There is no dlsputlng |
the tact that the dead have arisen. This |
ia one great part of the faith OF the
Latter-day SAINTS literal resurrec-
tion. There is, besides, no truth which |
the Saints believe which is not
contained within the lids of the Holy |
Bible. There is but one Lord, one |
faith, one.baptism, etc., we read IN |
the Bible, and it would appear to every
intelligent person that God does not
teach different methods of salvation;
vet. see how many and varied the sects
which profess to preach redemption TO
mankind. The divisions which marx the |
schisms and sects of Christendom are
not according te the mind and VIII OF
God.
Elder Bywater then proceeded at some
length and with conciseness to explain
that it was impossible. in view OF tne
contrarities and contradictions, division
and diversity, which existed among the
sects of the day, for all to be right. Yet
this Christian world had agreed, to DIS
agree with regard to the plan OF salVso
ton; it was fashionable for them 10
dissent from the word of God. He here
cited the case of Nicodemus. and me
reply of the Savior: Except q man pc
born again, of water and of the spirit,
he cannot enter the kingdom OF